Simplicity, model fit, complexity and uncertainty in spatial prediction models applied over time: We are quite sure, aren't we?

Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology: Concepts and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 189-208

  Huettmann, Falk ^a   Gottschalk, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84896372290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7390-0_10     Document Type: Chapter

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